Earlier this month, Mark was given the very first George Jonas Freedom Award at a gala hosted by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms in Toronto, honouring Mark's old National Post colleague, the late columnist, author and one-time Soviet operetta playwright, George Jonas.

All this week we're running a few excerpts from my recent speech to the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa, as broadcast by Canada's Sun News Network. In this segment, I talk about how culture trumps politics, and reprise Mrs Thatcher's great line: First you win the argument; then you win the election...

All this week we're posting a few excerpts from my recent speech to the Manning Networking Conference, which is (to analogize roughly) the Canadian equivalent of CPAC. In this segment, I talk about the state's annexation through welfare of personal responsibility...

All this week we're fishing out a few moments from my speech to the Manning Networking Conference in Ottawa, as broadcast on the Sun News Network across Canada. In this segment, they seem to have edited out my cheap sex gags about California (the unexpurgated version of which we'll try to hunt down somewhere), but my observations about the bureaucratic dictatorship remain relevant...